Werner Pockrandt

Werner Pockrandt (born January 29, 1905 in Selchowhammer , district of Bromberg , † January 17, 1988 in Hanover ) was a German fossil collector and paleontologist.

Pockrandt grew up in the Netzekreis in the country. From 1919 to 1925 he attended the teachers' seminar in Schönlanke and Schwerin an der Warthe and was then first a private tutor until 1929 and then at various schools in East Prussia, including Königsberg , where he was also a district home nurse and wrote about natural history and local history for newspapers. After military service in the Second World War and being a prisoner of war, he was a teacher in Hanover after the war. Here he began to deal with palaeontology especially from northwest Germany and to publish since 1960 (another focus of his publications was rabbit breeding).

In 1984 he was the first to receive the Zittel Medal . In 1971 he was the founder of the paleontology working group in Hanover (honorary member since 1984), which was attached to the natural history department of the State Museum and published its own magazine. In it published both amateur paleontologists and specialist scientists. He led numerous excursions. In 1982 he received the Silver Ammonite from the Natural History Department of the Lower Saxony State Museum.

His own paleontological collection went to the University of Hanover (Institute for Geology and Paleontology) after his death, but he also donated museums and universities in Hamburg , Munich and Gehrden during his lifetime . He wrote five first descriptions.

literature

• List of publications in the working group Paläontologie Hannover, Volume 13, 1985, Issue 1/2, pp. 9–15, addendum in Paläontologie Aktuell, 17, 1988, pp. 15f

Web links

• Obituary in Paläontologie Aktuell, 17, 1988, p. 14 (pdf)